If you want to get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer, I Programmer Weekly is a digest of book reviews, articles and news written by programmers, for programmers. This one covers June 6-12.

News

BitNami has added Tiny Tiny RSS server to its collection of LAMP appliances. This makes it very easy to replace Google Reader with something you can rely on. Perhaps this is the way all software should transition to the cloud.

Apple's dev conference, WWDC, has been light on any real announcements that actually affect developers, but the news that the UI has been "made over" in iOS7 gives programmers a lot of work - for what?

Updated June 11. This year's JavaZone Norway's video trailers are worth viewing. So far it has only reached the short teaser version. Can we wait for the full trailer? What is the mysterious countdown all about? Is this Nordic noir or a straight zombie apocalypse.

Microsoft has announced several enhancements to Windows Windows Azure has a new billing model intended to make it a more attractive option as a Dev/Test environment, particularly to MSDN subscribers. Its Free Trial has also become more flexible.

Rubik's cube as computer game isn't a new idea, but in this case it is more a Rubik's cube that is a computer. The Rubik's Futuro Cube is a complete ARM-based machine with a form of touch input, wireless links and more. There is also an SDK that you can use to develop games.

Initially envisaged to teach computer programming fundamentals within a visual context, Processing is a free, open source language based on Java, designed to be easy to use and to provide near instant gratification to the beginner. Processing 2.0 has now been released together with a revamped website.

The Core

One of the things that you have to get used to when programming for a mobile platform is that your app can be shut down and restarted without much warning. You have to learn how to cope with this start-stop existence and that, for an Android app, its a tough life just trying to stay alive.

The great thing about Firefox OS is that you can build apps without knowing anything much about it. All you need is some HTML, CSS and JavaScript. While this is true, it is also worth finding out how to create a UX that looks and feels like official Firefox programs. To do this you need to find out about the UX Building Blocks.

Babbage's Bag

When it comes to processor architecture we still donâ€™t have a clear agreement on what sort of design philosophies should be followed. How do you make a faster general purpose processor? This is a question about architecture.

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